July 20, 2011
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-150
NEXT SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS
HOUSTON -- The next crew to launch to the International Space Station
will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 27 at
NASA's Johnson Space Center. The briefing will be broadcast live on
NASA Television and the agency's website. Reporters may ask questions
from participating NASA centers or by phone.
NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and
Anatoly Ivanishin are set to launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft
on Sept. 22. The three Expedition 29 crew members will participate in
round-robin interviews. To reserve an interview opportunity, U.S.
media representatives must contact the Johnson newsroom at
281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. Monday, July 25.
To participate in the news conference from a NASA center, U.S.
journalists must call the center's public affairs office by 5 p.m.
local time on Tuesday, July 26. Reporters participating in the
briefing by phone must be credentialed by a NASA center and call the
Johnson newsroom by 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27.
Burbank also will be available for live satellite interviews between
3:10 and 4:30 p.m. on July 27. NASA TV will air b-roll footage of
Expedition 29 mission preparations beginning at 2:30 p.m. that day.
To participate in Burbank's satellite interviews, reporters must
contact Stephanie Stoll at 281-483-9071 or stephanie.r.stoll@nasa.gov
by 3 p.m. on July 26.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are three of six crew members who
will comprise Expeditions 29 and 30. Aboard the station, they will
join Expedition 29 NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and cosmonaut Sergei
Volkov, who will stay aboard the station until November.
Burbank's live satellite interviews will air on NASA's Live Interview
Media Outlet channel. The channel is a digital satellite C-band
downlink by uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 3,
transponder 9C, located 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865.5
MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity. FEC is
¾, data rate is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404 Msps, transmission
DVB-S, 4:2:0.
For astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios
For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the international Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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